Employment

EMPLOYMENT SOLICITORS SURREY

Does your business struggle to understand its legal obligations towards its staff?

Does the fear of being taken to an Employment Tribunal take priority in your business decisions?

How do you cope and comply with the ever-changing rules governing employee rights?

Our team of highly-regarded Surrey-based employment lawyers, are able to provide clear and practical advice on all of the above issues and more. We recognise that dealing with staffing problems can often be very difficult, time-consuming and involve high levels of emotion, which we will always respect. Our experienced employment solicitorsare able to provide advice that is sympathetic to your business yet gives you options and solutions to solving the problems you face.

We regularly advise business owners, directors, HR directors and HR managers on a wide variety of HR problems and issues, including: disciplining employees, dealing with issues of poor performance, training your managers so that they can deal with HR problems more effectively, helping you navigate redundancy processes, etc. We also have an in-house capability to represent you at an Employment Tribunal and we can provide advice and support from start to finish. Our Surrey-based employment solicitors will give you the support you need to allow you to run your business more effectively. Our approach, however, is always to try and avoid litigation, but sometimes that is not possible. As such, our advice is tailored to your business needs to ensure if you are taken to an Employment Tribunal, you are in the strongest possible position to either win or negotiate a sensible deal. All our employment lawyers are experienced in dealing with negotiatingsettlements, so are able to advise you on the best tactical approach in order to achieve the best outcome.

If you wish to fix the cost of your HR service and insure against the possibility of Tribunal claims then we recommend you review our EmployLaw Service and take advantage of the most experienced Employment Solicitors in Surrey.

Our Employment Department has recently been recognised in the Legal 500 as one of the leading practices in Surrey and the South East for HR and employment law advice. The recognition in the Legal 500 is obtained through client testimonials and the quality of our employment lawyers' work. We are certain that our employment lawyers have seen your problem before and will know how to deal with and address it. As we are experts in the law we would also be able to advise you on angles and issues that others may miss, in particular, discrimination.

SERVICES AVAILABLE FROM OUR EMPLOYMENT LAWYERS

Compromise Agreements
Advising the best strategy to introduce and effect a compromise agreement. Our employment solicitors are all experienced in handling the negotiations for you.

Contracts of Employment/Directors' Service Agreements
Our employment lawyers will work with you to draft contracts that provide the business with the most appropriate level of protection, in particular ensuring former employees are restricted from poaching your clients and staff.

Staff handbooks
Have our experienced employment solicitors work with you to draft and implement policies that are tailored to your business and give you flexibility to change with the law.

Discrimination issues
Our Employment lawyers are experts in all areas of discrimination so are able to advise you on how to ensure you comply with your obligations and how to minimise risk of discrimination claims.

Employment tribunal representation
We have in-house advocacy capacity but we also have links with barristers who specialise in employment law and can support you with either option.

Grievances
Our employment solicitors can advise you on the best way to handle grievances looking at the outset and clarifying the issues through to the investigation and conclusion/appeal.

Unfair dismissal
We can advise you on the procedure to follow to terminate members of staff and how to do so fairly. Our employment lawyers are often able to ensure clients follow the due process and do not receive an appeal, let alone a tribunal claim.

TUPE
We can advise on the steps you need to follow whether you are buying or selling a business and/or whether you are looking to outsource any services, all of which will be caught by TUPE.

Whatever your employment law needs, our expert employment solicitors in Surrey can help you with clear, practical advice and a professional service. Our employment solicitors predominantly serve clients in Surrey (Guildford, Godalming and Dorking), London and the South East. We also act for a number of national and international clients.